Edgar T. Wherry

Edgar T. Wherry
Born:  Philadelphia, PA 9/10/1885; died 5/19/1982
Education: Pennsylvania (B.S. 1906; Ph.D. 1909)
Dissertation title: Contributions to the mineralogy of the Newark group in Pennsylvania (Trans. Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia 7, February, 1910)
Advisor: ?
Comments: Started his career as a mineralogist and chemist but became interested in soil acidity and plant-soil relations and eventually moved entirely into botany.  He wrote several popular field guides to eastern wildflowers and ferns.
Teaching history: Lehigh 1908-13; Penn 1930-1955
Ph.D. students: Robert B. Platt
External links: USGS memoir | Wikipedia